AMIRALIAN, Maria Lúcia T.M. – (1992) – Compreendendo o cego através do Procedimento de Desenhos-Estórias: uma abordagem psicanalítica da influência da cegueira na organização da personalidade [Understanding the Blind through the Drawing-and-Story Procedure: a Psychoanalytic Approach to the Influence of Blindness on Personality Organization]. Doctoral Thesis. São Paulo (SP), Instituto de Psicologia da USP, 189 pp.
This present work concerns the understanding of blind people through globally analyzing their mental functioning and to research the significance of blindness on the subject’s deep anguish, on his individual choices toward the affective object, on the definition of defense mechanisms and on the paths of egoic elaboration. In order to carry on this investigation, the Drawing-and-Story Procedure (D-E) was utilized. After a previous adaptation that made possible the realization of drawings by blind people, the D-E was used to obtain graphic and verbal expressions of 18 blind subjects of both genders, with the age ranging between 10 and 25. The results indicate that blind that have congenital blindness present problems in the integration of personality, which is reflected on their identity. The ones that are blind by acquired blindness organize their lives on the basis of the anguish of loss. In both groups, feelings of loneliness and isolation, disqualification and insufficiency, besides envy, were found. There are conflicts of acceptance versus negation of blindness and of independence versus dependence in relation to the mother figure. The material obtained through the D-E showed its efficiency in the clinical investigation of the blind’s personality, making possible the understanding of fundamental aspects of the personality of those that can not see.